| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w28708 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 28708 |
| (Re)scheduling Pollution Exposure: The Case of Surgery Schedules | |
| Jialin Huang; Jianwei Xing; Eric Zou | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-04-26 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Many human activities can be strategically timed around forecastable natural hazards to mute their impacts. We study air pollution shock mitigation in a high-stakes healthcare setting: hospital surgery scheduling. Using newly available inpatient surgery records from a major city in China, we track post-surgery survival for over 1 million patients, and document a significant increase of hospital mortality among those who underwent surgeries on days with high particulate matter pollution. This effect has two special features. First, pollution on the surgery day, rather than exposure prior to hospitalization, before or after the surgery, is primarily explanatory of the excess mortality. Second, a small but high-risk group – elderly patients undergoing respiratory or cancer operations – bears a majority of pollution’s damages. Based on these empirical findings, we build and analyze a model of hospital surgery scheduling. For over a third of the high-risk surgeries, there exists an alternative, lower-pollution day within three days such that moving the surgery may lead to a Pareto improvement in survival. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Estimation Methods ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28708 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586381 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jialin Huang,Jianwei Xing,Eric Zou. (Re)scheduling Pollution Exposure: The Case of Surgery Schedules. 2021. |
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| w28708.pdf（1446KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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